Lake Merritt BART Station Area Plan Meeting

By Aaron Bialick
Dec 5, 2010

From EBBC:

The next CSG meeting is happening on Monday, December 13th. Attached you will find an agenda for the meeting. Representatives from related planning processes will make presentations during the first part of the meeting. The second part will focus on a proposal for the subarea workshops. Please come with your thoughts about how to strengthen the proposal for the subarea workshops (outreach methods, key questions to ask participants, etc.).

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